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• SnapNames Hit with Class Action Lawsuit Over Shill Bidding at Online Domain Auctions

  
  Kikabink News - Internet Marketing News — Authority: 479
  Following revelations that a SnapNames.com, Inc. employee had acted as a shill bidder to manipulate bids in domain name auctions conducted by Oversee.Net, Inc. (SnapName’s subsidiary),... (Click on the title for the full story...)
  2 days ago

• Latest Developments in the SnapNames Shill Bidding Scandal

  
  Adam Dicker | Domain Expert — Authority: 157
  The first class action lawsuit has been filed in the shill bidding scandal at SnapNames that continues to dominate conversation in the domain industry. In another development, SnapNames has given customers access to all of their old bidding records so they can calculate the damages suffered in the shocking scheme. ...
  2 days ago

• 12,000 Auctions: The Halvarez Effect On Our Account (So Far)

  
  The Domains — Authority: 504
  Now that Snapnames put all  auction history into the system going back to its first auction in August 2004 (prior to that Snapnames gave the domain to the person who backordered it first) I can make a preliminary report. We were involved in 11,997 auctions from August 2004 until today. We know snapnames.com by ...
  4 days ago

• Afternic.com Closing Soon Section Needs Help

  
  DotWeekly.com Domain Name Blog — Authority: 475
  I am a fan of Afternic even though I am often critical of it’s service. They have so many things going well for them but often people who list domain names with the service see little action (offers/sales).I do get offers and sales using Afternic, but very few. I have used their advice in the [...]
  5 days ago

• Pool.com to Auction 2 Character .Biz Domains

  
  Adam Dicker | Domain Expert — Authority: 157
  On the heels of the recent 1 character .biz domain and 2 character .de domain auctions at Sedo , domain auction house Pool.com announced yesterday that they have teamed up with Neustar to auction off more than 1000 two character .biz domains.  The domains will be made available in a phased release beginning November ...
  6 days ago

• Pool.com to Auction 2 Character .Biz Domains

  
  Domain Name News — Authority: 577
  On the heels of the recent 1 character .biz domain and 2 character .de domain auctions at Sedo , domain auction house Pool.com announced yesterday that they have teamed up with Neustar to auction off more than 1000 two character .biz domains.  The domains will be made available in a phased release beginning ...
  6 days ago

• SnapNames Employee Bid in Companys own Domain Auctions

  
  Adam Dicker | Domain Expert — Authority: 157
  A Snapnames employee was caught bidding in the company’s own doain auctions leading to some big issues with how the company is handling its auctions. The clean up process is underway and many domains will soon see a rebate in auctions they were involved in that may have been bid up resulting in shill bidding. ...
  1 week ago

• Moniker.com Extended TRAFFIC Auction Nets $278K

  
  The Domains — Authority: 504
  Here are the results for the Moniker.com extended TRAFFIC auction which was held on SnapNames.com yesterday which generated $278,338 in sales. In all, 139 domains sold and I’m sure none of you would have picked the highest selling domain as OneOfAKind.com which went from its reserve of $5K all the way up to $26K. ...
  1 week ago

• Our Picks For The RickLatona.com TRAFFIC Extended Auction Today

  
  The Domains — Authority: 504
  The extended auction of the RickLatona.com TRAFFIC auction will be held today online at  1:30pm EDT. There are about 600 domain in the extended auction including those that did not sell in the live auction To view the full catalog or to bid click here Here are our top picks for the auction today: ...
  1 week ago

• Oversee: Reinstate all Snapnames auction history immediately!

  
  Acro.net - Technology Rants & Raves by Acroplex — Authority: 414
  Half-measures require full responses. When Oversee announced today that a former employee of Snapnames was defrauding thousands of customers via means of shill bidding at domain auctions, they promised that the ongoing investigation would end with issuing refunds plus interest.There is no doubt that Oversee is ...
  1 week ago

• Namejet Plays The “This Can’t Happen To Us” Card & That’s Troubling

  
  The Domains — Authority: 504
  Late today, we received a notice from NameJet.com, basically saying that what happened at Snapnames.com could not happen at NameJet.com “”"At NameJet we have the necessary security protocols in place to prevent this kind of incident.”"” “”We have security procedures and policies in place that monitor all ...
  1 week ago

• TechCrunch.com Crunches Snapnames.com Calling The Domain Business “Dirty”

  
  The Domains — Authority: 504
  Michael Arrington , wrote the story for TechCrunch on the Snapnames.com bidding scandal and the opening paragraph should give you an idea of how the rest of the story reads: “”Anyone who doesn’t know how dirty the domain name business is, just doesn’t know the domain name business.”" Mr. Arrington says ...
  1 week ago

• Domain Auctions: Chill Out, But Let’s Re-examine

  
  Domain Name Wire — Authority: 617
  It’s time to step back and re-evaluate domain name auctions. The news today about an employee bidding at SnapNames is certainly disappointing. So here’s my take on what the domain industry should do. First, chill out. I’ve seen a bunch of comments today from people that now assume everyone who ever beat ...
  1 week ago

• Can Oversee Get Some Of The Money They Paid For Snapnames.com Back?

  
  The Domains — Authority: 504
  It was in May 2007 that Oversee bought Snapnames.com for tens of millons of dollars. Shortly thereafter, Network Solutions its largest registrar partner used the escape clause in their contract with Snapnames.com to pull out of their agreement. Now it appears that the  former employee of Snapnames engaged in ...
  1 week ago

• Snapnames Admits Employee Fraud

  
  DomainerPro.com — Authority: 91
  In a stunner of a development, Snapnames has discovered that one of their employees has been secretly bidding on domain names for the last four years. The employee set up a Snapnames account under a fake name and bid on domain names. The company says in their press release that this affected only a small percentage ...
  1 week ago

• Oversee Uncovers Huge Inside Bidding Scheme At SnapNames.com & Will Offer Refunds

  
  The Domains — Authority: 504
  In a huge breaking story for the industry that will continue to unfold over the next hours and days, Oversee.net the parent company of SnapNames.com, recently discovered that a now former employee has been shill bidding on Snapnames.com auctions in violation of the company’s policy for many years. This employee who ...
  1 week ago

• Our Moniker.com TRAFFIC Extended Auction Picks

  
  The Domains — Authority: 504
  The Moniker.com TRAFFIC extended auction closes in just about 3 hours and here are some of our picks as domains we think are interesting and may have been overlooked in the 2K+ domains currently in the auction. Most of these do not have an opening bid. The auction closes at 3:15 today EST To join an auction just ...
  1 week ago

• Moniker.com Extended TRAFFIC Auction Now With 38 Domains With Bids

  
  The Domains — Authority: 504
  38 domains currently have bids at the Moniker.com extended TRAFFIC auction which closes tomorrow,  Wednesday November 4th at 3:15 EST on Snapnames.com Yesterday, there was a bid on a domain at over $100K, but that bid could not be verified and it was deleted. The amounts listed are the current high bids and all the ...
  1 week ago

• Key Reminder – There are 2 TRAFFIC auctions going on

  
  Newfound Names LLC — Authority: 110
  After speaking with a few people today it was clear that many people might have no idea Rick Latona has an extended auction going on SEPERATE of Moniker’s extended auction outside of clicking on the banner of domaining.com I spoke with a half a dozen good buyers today and 3 of them (50%) assumed all the names in ...
  1 week ago

• Yellowstone.org Sells For $13K on NameJet.com

  
  The Domains — Authority: 504
  The domain name Yellowstone.org sold for $12,978 at NameJet.com Of course Yellowstone National Park is one of the most visited National Parks in the US. Yellowstone.com is a parking page with almost 5K monthly visitors and Yellowstone.net is an active site with almost 50K visitors a month (visitor stats by ...
  1 week ago

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